Sanitary sugar dispenser



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SANITARY SUGAR DISPENSER Filed March 12,,1958

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Patented Apr. 9, 1940 UNITED. STATES PATENT oFFice SANITARY SUGAR. DISPENSER Charles E. Truitt, Springfield, n1. Application March 12, 1938, Serial No. 195,507

1 Claimr (o1.221-9s)- Y My invention relatesto dispensers for sugar and the like and more especially to dispensers commonly used on the dining table; an object being in my invention to provide a sanitary sugar dispenser that will measure the sugar that is needed in predetermined quantities for table use and other purposes and thus measure and dis: pense such sugar in a very sanitary manner with a dispenser that keeps the sugar covered up and IQ protects the same at all times from any outside particles getting into it.

A particular purpose of my invention is to provide a sanitary sugar dispenser which will protect the sugar from outside particles at all times 15 and in such a dispenser provide a simple measuring unit of predetermined size and shape provided with a compartment normally registering with the sugar chamber through an opening in the base of the chamber and provided with a discharge outlet adapted to be slidably moved with the measuring unit into discharge registry with the sugar outlet or spout for the sanitary sugar dispenser; and to provide such a deviceas may be economically manufactured with no compli- 25 cated features in its construction permitting its selling price range to be within the reach of any home.

I attain the objects of my invention in the device described in the annexed specification, recited in the claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein like reference numerals indicate like parts in the several figures.

Referring to the figures: Fig. 1 is a perspective of my invention. 35 Fig. 2 is a vertical half section from front to back of one of the forms of my invention.

Fig. 3 is a vertical half section of another form of my invention.

Fig. 4 is a vertical half section of that form 40 of my invention using a cylindrical or tubular My dispenser has handles 3 and 4 and a base 5 with a dispensing spout 6 defining an operative portion of the novel feature of my invention. 55 As has been stated my invention includes the means necessary for dispensing sugar from chamber I in predetermined measured quantities through'spout 6 and I- accomplish this result by providing in a slanting channel passage 1 a slidable measuringand dispensing unit 8., Channel 5 I l slopes downward at an angle as illustratedin Figures 2, 3, and 4 extending up through the base 9 of sugar chamber -l and has an opening I therein providing an outlet'for sugar from chamber I.

- 1 0 Measuring unit 8 has a compartment II adapted to contain when full a predetermined quantity of sugar to be dispensed from spout 6 and this compartment has a receiving opening IZthrough which sugar may enter, compartment I! from sugar chamber I when the sanitary dispenser is setting upright and this same compartment has a dispensing outlet I3, adapted to be slidably moved, when sugar is needed, up into'dispensing 1 registry with spout 6 to release sugar therefrom by tipping the sanitary dispenser up far enough to permit the measuring and dispensing unit to slide forward in channel I by gravity thus releasingany sugar that may'have filled compart= ment I I of the measuring unit 8 while the sanitary dispenser was setting upright.

It will be noted in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 that I am providing additional forms of my sanitary dispenser. I

For instance, in Fig. 3 I amdisclosing a scoop 30,

type I4 of measuring and dispensing unit adapted to be automatically filled with sugar. when the sanitaryv dispenser is setting upright and instead of being provided with a sugar releasing outlet opening I3 opposite inlet opening I2 which registers with opening Ill in chamber I this scoop type measuring and dispensing unit is constructed in a manner permitting sugar. to be released therefrom out the forward end I5 thereof when it slidably moves forward to throw forward en 40 I5 in registry with spout 6.

0n the other hand, in that form of my invention disclosed in Fig.4 it will be noted that I provide a tubular channel passage I6 with a cylindrical measuring and dispensing unit I! adapted to operatively slide in channel I6 when measuring and dispensing sugar and this cylindrical measuring and dispensing unit is provided with a top receiving opening I8 and a bottom sugar discharge opening I9.

In order to prevent the cylindrical form of measuring unit from turning in channel I6, I am providing a guide pin 20 or rib slidably regis tering with slot 2 I in the measuring unit II.

In the operation of my invention,; it will be noticed that in the channel which slidably supports my measuring unit the space 22 between the opening in the base of the sugar receptacle and the opening in the channel which registers with the dispensing spout 6 will be greater than the length of compartment H which is shaped to define the measuring unit for sugar, so that no sugar will be lost therefrom before it is properly filled orbefore it reaches the outlet opening in channel 7 which registers With spout 6.

Thus, it Will be obvious that I am not confining the salient features of my invention to one particular form thereof but I am disclosing several practical operative forms thereof. I

Having thus described the nature of my invention, what I claim is:

A sanitary sugar dispenser comprising a receptaole, a handle and dispensing spout for the reccptacle, said receptacle provided with a sloping bottom having a sugar releasing aperture adjacent the periphery of said bottom, a fixed channel beneath said sloping bottom of said receptacle and parallel therewith a sugar measuring and dispensing cup slidably registering within said sloping channel, said cup shaped to define a forward top receiving and dispensing mouth and a lip sloping from the bottom to the forward top and front portion of said cup member and having cited closures fitted in a manner leaving the forward top portion of the cup open, said cup normally registering at the base of said sloping channel when said receptacle is setting upright, said receptacle having its forward side wall disposed at an inward and downward angle in a position to define a sugar releasing space forward of and below the same, a sugar dispensing spout and an upright wall supporting the same so that the spout is disposed adjacent the top of its supporting wall. Said channel communicating with the passage in said spout, said slidable measuring and dispensing cup having its forward top opening registering in a position to communicate with said receptacle when said cup is in the bottom of said sloping channel and registering in communication with said releasing spout when said cup is slidably moved to the forward end of said channel, thus to release through said spout such sugar and the like as maybe in said cup.

CHAS. E. TRUITT. 

